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Performance competition is a good thing

TechEmpower

If you've not been watching the ASP.NET team's community standups , you have missed some surprisingly transparent, interesting, and oftentimes funny updates from a major web application framework development team. We started the Framework Benchmarks project to collect data about performance. Clearly we're seeing a new Microsoft.

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Mythical Games raises $75M to build an NFT game engine

TechCrunch LA

Users don’t need to walk through the mechanics of setting up a wallet or writing down a seed phrase either. Users can purchase avatars on the platform with cryptocurrency through BitPay but they can also pay with a credit card. “We think this will actually change gaming for the long haul.

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Mangling JSON numbers

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In the remainder of this article, we examine potential improvements to our handling of long. Any server-side web framework or HTTP server will do. The front-end framework will do it, $.getJSON We should write an alternative to JSON.stringify that produces an exact representation of our number.” Failing fast.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. My articles never appeared on Digg so I didn’t focus on it at all. Simply write a great book?

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. How can you practice timing? Ditto people you met a while back.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Let’s set up a framework. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company?

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Our goal in this article is to paint a realistic picture of how to think about performance early in the life of an application. This article is focused on the server side, but we encourage you to also look at your application holistically. Framework Benchmarks. What do we mean by performance?

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